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Colleagues,
As reported in WIRED ... New technologies are on the near horizon. We are rapidly gaining the wireless capacity to acquire, fuse, disseminate and visualize complex physiological information. What can we do that is medically compelling with these new capabilities?
Here are a few potential real world applications from our friends at WIRED ...
Implantable Body Antenna
... New low-power wireless technologies are making it possible to implant monitoring devices in people’s bodies to monitor physiology, metabolism and other vital statistics ... the challenge is designing an antenna to operate where fat, muscle and skin create challenging conditions for wireless signals. This implantable antenna uses the 402-405MHz Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) frequency band. Combined with a custom integrated chip or a system on a chip, device makers can use the antenna in pacemakers, neurostimulation devices, and swallowable imaging and diagnostic systems.
Brain Controlled Interfaces (BCI) ... Mind Control
Taking brain waves and translating them directly into computer commands is a hot new area in user interface design ... The interfaces have three primary hardware components and several pieces of specialized software. A mesh cap holds small sensor electrodes firmly against the user’s head. An amplifier is connected to the electrodes and is used to boost the minute analog signals, measured in microvolts, that are received from the surface of the scalp. The signals are then converted into a digital signal and analyzed by signal processing software running on a PC...
See MedTech-IQ video & blog posts on "Brain Controlled" systems: https://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=bci
The Totally Connected Patient & Bathroom Display
... health and fitness equipment, from the basic digital scale to sophisticated heart and blood pressure monitors are becoming available with wireless capabilities. But most of these devices work independently with no easy way to share the data or discern patterns in it. Now picture the bathroom of the future ... in which physiological, metabolic and biochemical sensors acquire, fuse, and transmit information from devices that can talk to each other and wirelessly stream information onto a single screen visualization system with the Bluetooth Health Device Profile and the IEEE Personal Health Data specification ...
Read on at: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/cambridge-tech-demos/all/1
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in WIRED ... New technologies are on the near horizon. We are rapidly gaining the wireless capacity to acquire, fuse, disseminate and visualize complex physiological information. What can we do that is medically compelling with these new capabilities?
Here are a few potential real world applications from our friends at WIRED ...
Implantable Body Antenna
... New low-power wireless technologies are making it possible to implant monitoring devices in people’s bodies to monitor physiology, metabolism and other vital statistics ... the challenge is designing an antenna to operate where fat, muscle and skin create challenging conditions for wireless signals. This implantable antenna uses the 402-405MHz Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) frequency band. Combined with a custom integrated chip or a system on a chip, device makers can use the antenna in pacemakers, neurostimulation devices, and swallowable imaging and diagnostic systems.
Brain Controlled Interfaces (BCI) ... Mind Control
Taking brain waves and translating them directly into computer commands is a hot new area in user interface design ... The interfaces have three primary hardware components and several pieces of specialized software. A mesh cap holds small sensor electrodes firmly against the user’s head. An amplifier is connected to the electrodes and is used to boost the minute analog signals, measured in microvolts, that are received from the surface of the scalp. The signals are then converted into a digital signal and analyzed by signal processing software running on a PC...
See MedTech-IQ video & blog posts on "Brain Controlled" systems: https://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=bci
The Totally Connected Patient & Bathroom Display
... health and fitness equipment, from the basic digital scale to sophisticated heart and blood pressure monitors are becoming available with wireless capabilities. But most of these devices work independently with no easy way to share the data or discern patterns in it. Now picture the bathroom of the future ... in which physiological, metabolic and biochemical sensors acquire, fuse, and transmit information from devices that can talk to each other and wirelessly stream information onto a single screen visualization system with the Bluetooth Health Device Profile and the IEEE Personal Health Data specification ...
Read on at: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/cambridge-tech-demos/all/1
ENJOY!
CC
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